The Australian Aboriginal Astronomy Project is a collaboration of academics, educators, and
Indigenous elders researching the astronomical traditions and knowledge of Indigenous Australians, commonly termed
Australian Aboriginal astronomy. This research in
cultural astronomy covers the disciplines of
archaeoastronomy,
ethnoastronomy,
historical astronomy
Historical astronomy is the science of analysing historic astronomical data. The American Astronomical Society (AAS), established 1899, states that its Historical Astronomy Division "...shall exist for the purpose of advancing interest in topics re ...
,
geomythology, and
Indigenous knowledge.
In 2021, asteroid
10040 Ghillar
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. ...
was named in honour of
Ghillar Michael Anderson
Ghillar Michael Anderson (born 1951), or Michael Ghillar Anderson, is a Euahlayi Elder and activist from Goodooga, New South Wales, in Australia.
In 1972 he was one of the four men who set up the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, as a prot ...
, an elder of the
Euahlayi people, who has collaborated
[Asteroid named in honour of Ghillar Michael Anderson for the Aboriginal elder's contribution to astronomy](_blank)
''ABC News'', 6 July 2021. Retrieved 6 July 2021. with academic astronomers Robert Fuller and Duane Hamacher
Duane Hamacher, Associate Professor In Cultural Astronomy
University of Melbourne. Retrieved 6 July 2021. in sharing and documenting traditional star knowledge of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi people.
References
External links
Australian Indigenous Astronomy
Archaeology of Australia
Archaeoastronomy
Australian Aboriginal culture